Tsotsitaal and Camtho
Variety of mixed languages mainly spoken in the townships of Gauteng province / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tsotsitaal is a South African vernacular dialect derived from a variety of mixed languages mainly spoken in the townships of Gauteng province (such as Soweto, Soshanguve, Tembisa), but also in other agglomerations all over South Africa. Tsotsi is a Sesotho, Pedi or Tswana slang word for a "thug" or "robber" or "criminal", possibly from the verb "ho lotsa" "to sharpen", whose meaning has been modified in modern times to include "to con"; or from the tsetse fly, as the language was first known as Flytaal, although flaai also means "cool" or "street smart". The word taal in Afrikaans means "language".
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Tsotsitaal | |
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Flaaitaal | |
Native to | South Africa |
Era | Creolized by 1930, used until ca. 1980.[1] Now L2 only. |
Tswana creole | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | fly |
Glottolog | tsot1242 |
S40C (Shalambombo) [2] |
Camtho | |
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Isicamtho | |
Native to | South Africa |
Era | developed in the 1980s[3] |
Tsotsitaal–Zulu pidgin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | cmt |
Glottolog | camt1236 |
S40B [2] |
A tsotsitaal is built over the grammar of one or several languages, in which terms from other languages or specific terms created by the community of speakers are added. It is a permanent work of language-mix, language-switch, and terms-coining.